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“The fog of war. A back room within a back room....You know, it’s at times like these I wish I was Nixon, had every nook and cranny bugged.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 48
Tagged: Richard Nixon, War, Wiretapping
“Claire: I never believed in the tooth fairy.

Elizabeth: Well, you took the money anyway.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 49
Tagged: tooth fairy, Greed
“Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horse shit.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 46
Tagged: Conscience, stink, Onions, Morning Breath, Lies, Rotten Eggs, Horse Shit
“Brave is never giving up. You fight, no matter what.”
— Hannay Conway, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 47
Tagged: Bravery, Persistence
“Do you want to live? Tell us what we want. Tell us what we want to hear.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Threats, Appeasement
“After a dog’s bitten you, you either put it to sleep, or you put a muzzle on it. I’ve chosen a muzzle...for now.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 50
Tagged: Dogs, Dog Bite, Euthanasia, Muzzle
“Claire: You said once you thought he was all surface, Conway.

Yates: Yeah, a narcissist. But give him a pool to reflect in...watch out.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 51
Tagged: Surface, Narcissus, Narcissist
“There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 52
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Triumph, Evil, War
“He was right about your soul. What’s in your bones. That you’re ruthless. You’re corrupt. You destroy whatever’s in your path.”
— Tom Hammerschmidt, House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 52
Tagged: Soul, Bones, Ruthless, Corrupt
“The American people don’t know what’s best for them. I do. I know exactly what they need. They’re like little children, Claire. Children we never had. We have to hold their sticky fingers and wipe their filthy mouths. Teach them right from wrong. Tell them what to think and how to feel and what to want. They even need help writing their wildest dreams, crafting their worst fears. Lucky for them...they have me...they have you.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 56
Tagged: Children, Americans, Arrogance, Condescension
“We need to dial up the terror...”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 53
Tagged: Terror, Dial it Up
“Fear is un-American. And yes, the irony of saying those words to you on Halloween, of all days, is not lost on me. But although we may choose, as Americans, to scare ourselves once a year for fun...no one else tells any American when to shake in their boots at any other time.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Fear, Unamerican, Halloween
“If a man is not smart enough to be able to use whatever is in front of him and still make it work...well, then...that’s just a failure of the imagination.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 54
Tagged: Smart, Imagination, Failure
“You could wake up tomorrow...and...I don’t know, feed the children...start a war...”
— Thomas Yates, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 58
Tagged: Understatement, War
“He’s hiding something...but it doesn’t matter. He’s modern. He makes the presidency accessible. I mean, don’t you want to see the candidate stay up all night?”
— Thomas Yates, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 55
Tagged: Modern, Presidency, Accessible
“The identity of the next President of these United States is once again in the hands of a bunch of self-serving, money-hungry, boot-licking, power-seeking politicians who can be seduced or sucker punched or blackmailed into submission. And all I need is just one more vote than the other guy.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Identity, US President, Boot-Licking, Money-Hungry, Power-seeking, Sucker-Punched, Submission
“You know, they say the most vulnerable part of the human body...is the throat...and that you never really know how you feel about somebody...until they have their hands around your throat. So tell me...how do you feel now?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 62
Tagged: Death Threats, Choking
“You see, my feeling is, I think the Founding Fathers, they just got tired. And really, can you blame them? I mean, you can’t think of everything. Black swans, Murphy’s Law... I mean, at a certain point, you just have to sign off and cross your goddamn fingers and hope for the best.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 57
Tagged: Founding Fathers, Black Swan, Murphy's Law, Giving Up
“We both know something the rest of the world refuses to acknowledge. There is no justice, only conquest.”
— Tian Jun Gu, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 59
Tagged: Justice, Conquest
“...you can’t just sit back and admire the view. I’ve learned you’ve got to grab the present by the balls. That’s where the American people live.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: Americans, Proactive
“History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you’re dead. And you’re remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost!”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 60
Tagged: History, Winning
“You made this bed, America. You voted for me. Are you confused? Are you afraid? Because what you thought you wanted is now here. And there you are, staring back, slackjawed, bewildered, wondering if this is what you actually asked for.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 61
Tagged: Slackjawed, Bewildered
“I’m not fucking you because I like you. I’m fucking you because I hate you.”
— Laura Moretti, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: Hatefuck
“History has a way of looking better than it was.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: History, Hindsight
“But she is merciless. Single-minded as a single mind can be.”
— Mark Usher, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 62
Tagged: merciless, Single-Minded
“Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it. You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man. The man of action.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Strongman, Man of Action
“Familiar can turn foreign on a dime.”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 63
Tagged: familiar, Foreign
“How could you be so stupid...to fall in love?”
— Frank Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Stupid, Love
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I try to imagine what it’s like inside his mind, what I would do if I were him. And I’m telling you, it is all sorts of...He has no ideology. No North Star. Isn’t that the scariest thing of all?”
— Tom Hammerschmidt, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 64
Tagged: Conspiracy Theories, North Star, Ideology
“Now, history judges every leader, every president, by how he or she treats his or her own people.”
— Claire Underwood, House of Cards, Season 5: Chapter 65
Tagged: History, Presidents
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